I wanted to know what you guys thought of this potential set. I've borrowed ideas liberally from what I've seen and liked re edge spots and colors (I think this is ok to do, but if anyone knows otherwise, please let me know), and also mixed in some of my own ideas. I tried to keep the lower denoms simpler for cost considerations. Let me know what you guys think. This is what I'm envisioning for the front side; I am considering a different inlay for the back, and will post those soon. Thanks. I have two alternate versions (1st row vs. 2nd row), with changes for the 100 and 1000 chips.
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links_slayer
4 of a Kind
Is the artwork just a placeholder or is this the artwork you are going to use?
Chippy McChiperson
Straight Flush
I like the DG tiger, but I feel like maybe its a little close in color to the next denom up? In the second row, the 100 and 5000 chips are almost the same colors. I don't know if they will be on the felt at the same time, but if so this might cause a little confusion. Digging the 500 chip. maybe swap out the dayglo pink spot in line 2 with dg tiger???
Are you suggesting to change the spots on the black chip in line two to DG tiger instead of DG pink? (or did you mean the DGtiger as a base?)
Chippy McChiperson
Straight Flush
Yeah, I meant maybe try changing the spots from pink to tiger. The DG tiger looks awesome, and it wouldn't look so similar to the 5000 chip.
I would go with the top row in either case for 2 reasons:
1. The 100 and 5000 won't play together, but they look darn close and I could see them getting mixed at the end of the night.
2. It would be a more interesting set if all the chips were unique. Two black/pink chips is a bit much.
But I like the blue 1000
1. The 100 and 5000 won't play together, but they look darn close and I could see them getting mixed at the end of the night.
2. It would be a more interesting set if all the chips were unique. Two black/pink chips is a bit much.
But I like the blue 1000
agreed. even if you end up with something very close to what you have in terms of theme, they will be more than worth their price in terms of smoothing out the edges and just giving it the overall polish that you see in other members' sets here. highly recommended.
It sounds like a good idea. Do you have any idea re ballpark price range to have that done, keeping with the relatively simple theme that I've started with?
Ben
Full House
I like the top row in the OP a lot - other versions have possible issues as mentioned above, and I think it looks great as-is. My only note on that one is that having a solid 25 in an otherwise-spotted tourney set would make me REALLY unhappy - I get the cost considerations, but I'd have to find a way to at least spring for a level 1 spot.
slisk250
Straight Flush
i really would not want to speak for any of our designers as to price. as i understand it, all projects are unique and are priced according to the amount of work necessary to get the job done.
one thing i will say is that i remember thinking that Button Potato (CT member) put it aptly when he said the following after working with John (J5) on his hotstamped semi-custom Paulson set as it definitely matched my reaction to the price and service provided after my first design experience with John:
Button Potato said:
BP's threads concerning his set here and here and a bit of pr0n in the spoiler below (so as to not derail DMZ's thread).
Poker Zombie
Royal Flush
I agree with this. Even a 114 single pip (in white) says "I belong in this set". Solids are for solids sets.
I also like the OP top row the best. While the DG Tiger is awesome, you probably don't want 2 eye-popping bright chips right next to each other, unless you are a perpetual sunglasses player.
Chips are expensive. Don't guess. Order a sample set first. Look at the chips in the light you will be playing in - it will have an effect. For the love of chips, order samples and don't ever guess. People rarely dump of their CPC chip sets. Statistically speaking you are far more likely to keep these chips your entire life, than you are to keep the same spouse. You should spend at least some time together before taking the plunge.
Also note: unlike spouses, chips don't mind if you play with something different on the side...
Well said. So very well said [emoji6] [emoji1]
Psypher1000
Straight Flush
I like the spotted 25. Huge improvement, IMO.
What threw me the most in the initial mockups, and still throws me immediately in these, is the half-pie in the middle of the set. My brain seems to be adamant that half-pies have no business being in an otherwise normally-spotted set tournament set, and if they are, they belong at either end vs. the middle (in spite of the chip being at the "halfway" point). I like the colors throughout the set and think there's some interesting things going on there. Can't same I'm a fan of a tournament set that doesn't make use of a consistent spot pattern throughout, but I can get over that part, particularly since we use casino cash sets w/high denoms as tourney sets all the time. Really it's just the half-pie that screams at me. Everything else works for me.
Of the latest iteration, I greatly prefer the latter. I like what you did w/the blue 1k vs. the orange, and at least the location of the spots is consistent, if not the pattern itself.
What threw me the most in the initial mockups, and still throws me immediately in these, is the half-pie in the middle of the set. My brain seems to be adamant that half-pies have no business being in an otherwise normally-spotted set tournament set, and if they are, they belong at either end vs. the middle (in spite of the chip being at the "halfway" point). I like the colors throughout the set and think there's some interesting things going on there. Can't same I'm a fan of a tournament set that doesn't make use of a consistent spot pattern throughout, but I can get over that part, particularly since we use casino cash sets w/high denoms as tourney sets all the time. Really it's just the half-pie that screams at me. Everything else works for me.
Of the latest iteration, I greatly prefer the latter. I like what you did w/the blue 1k vs. the orange, and at least the location of the spots is consistent, if not the pattern itself.
I respectfully disagree
But I do agree on this set the 1/2 pie seems out of place.
slisk250
Straight Flush
I respectfully disagree
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But I do agree on this set the 1/2 pie seems out of place.
Paul, are you drinking?
"the 1/2 pie seems out of place".???? STFU
Paul, are you drinking?
"the 1/2 pie seems out of place".???? STFU
Soon I will be.
I think it's more of the color combo throwing it out of place for me
slisk250
Straight Flush
Soon I will be.
I think it's more of the color combo throwing it out of place for me
That's seals it. Come clean. I know you're already on the sauce. Please don't ride your bike home from the pub....
Poker Zombie
Royal Flush
I use a 1/4 pie T500 in an otherwise spotted set. I too have heard a comment from a player that it felt like it should have been a lower denom chip.
If I could go back and do it differently, I wouldn't change it though. In fact, it's good to hear something constructive - the next set of chips is just a couple thousand dollars away...
If I could go back and do it differently, I wouldn't change it though. In fact, it's good to hear something constructive - the next set of chips is just a couple thousand dollars away...
spikeithard
Flush
Big fan of the half pie..
Psypher1000
Straight Flush
I respectfully disagree
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But I do agree on this set the 1/2 pie seems out of place.
Well met, Stocky! Our tastes do indeed differ. I never commented on the Iron Bank set because I never felt qualified to, seeing as how I had never seen an episode nor read a book from the series at that time. I showed the set to my neighbor at work who's a huge GoT fan, though, and he loved it..
Psypher1000
Straight Flush
Yup, solid to half to spotted seems natural to me, as would quarter to half. Seen a few of those - be they mockups or actual sets - that worked well. Those were always lower denoms to my recollection, though, just as you described your set. If I had to pin down what's throwing me about the 1/2 pie on this one, it's the fact that it's truly in the middle of his progression, and that there's no solid or quarter next to it to make the progression seem more natural.
Ultimately it's personal preference. There's nothing non-functional about a 1/2 pie inclusion, and it shouldn't lead to dirty stacks based on the rest of the set. But yeah, that 1/2 pie in the middle clashes with my engineer sensibilities.
Great comments. Thanks for all the feedback! Happy to cause a little controversy out there. I do like the half-pie where it's at. I'm having difficulty deciding on versions of the 25 and 1000's however. Think I like the darker green better overall, and I keep flip-flopping between the 1000s.
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